TEEN ANGST SUMMER SIZZLER!!!

Date:
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
The Railway Club
Street:
579 Dunsmuir Street
City/Town:
Vancouver, BC

At the July edition of Teen Angst we encourage our readers to bring out their 'sexiest stories' tales of first kisses, first times and awkward hormonal moments.

It's going to be an awkward and hot July... we hope.

If you want to read e-mail teenangstpoet(at)gmail.com to get on the list or show up at the Railway at 6:30 to sign up.

Teen Angst is an open mic comedic reading series where everyday people read from their embarrassing old journals, poems, songs, essays (and more), in front of an audience.

Part stand-up comedy, part poetry reading, part karaoke (in the way you go to watch people embarrass themselves). Similar shows are popping up all over North America, come and the one that’s been going strong since 2000! (That’s like 6 years of angst- you could go through high school twice again!)

Latitude Festival 2008 :: News

Teen Angst at Latitude Festival July 18, 19, 20 Suffolk UK

Get digging through your old notebooks UK!



http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/news/story.aspx?aid=1c78a6cf-9c84-4450-931e-6a8c4441eec8

Bumbershoot 2008 | Fresh News: Teen Angst Poetry Contest!

From Bumbershoot.org:


Teen Angst Poetry Contest!

In the spirit of Sara Bynoe’s F**k Off & Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry, we turn to BumberFans for their most heartfelt teenaged writings. It might be your worst fear to let your teenage self see the light of day again after all these years, but let go of your shame and you could score a pair of Gold Passes! But of course that’d mean Sara would read your scary teen poetry to a live audience at Bumbershoot, so that’s a risk you’ll have to weigh… Get all the deets at here.

"Fuck Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry" will be performed on Aug 30 at Bumbershoot. Yeeeeah!

UPCOMING SHOWS

TEEN ANGST: A Celebration of Inadvertently Hilarious Adolescent Writing

July 8, 7:30- 9pm sharp! $7 at the door or free if you bring something to read.

At the Railway Club, 579 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver

Teen Angst occurs on the second Tuesday of every month. Upcoming shows: July 8, Aug 13, Sept 9 etc.

TEEN ANGST SUMMER SIZZLER!!!

At the July edition of Teen Angst we encourage our readers to bring out their 'sexiest stories' tales of first kisses, first times and awkward hormonal moments.

E-mail teenangstpoet(at)gmail.com to sign up. There are a few spots left!


VANCOUVER POETRY SLAM- July 7, 9pm, $5

Sara Bynoe (Teen Angst Queen) will be featured at the Slam at Cafe Deux Soliel at 2096 Commercial Drive.


LATITUDE FESTIVAL- Henham Park in Southwold, Suffolk UK - July 18, 19, 20

People of the UK bring out your old teen writing and share with me on the poetry stage at this amazing festival!

Music Acts include: Sigur Ros, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab for Cutie, Crystal Castles, M.I.A. and more.


BUMBERSHOOT- Seattle, WA - Aug 30

Since 1971, Bumbershoot has drawn artists representing the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, dance, theatre, performance, and visual arts to the Seattle Center over Labor Day weekend.

Sara will be performing her solo show “Fuck Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry” in the 300 seat theatre. Some of the other artist’s performing at this year’s Bumbershoot are: Beck, Adele, Saul Williams, Anti-Flag, and so much more!

New Teen Angst Video!

Nathaniel is one of my favorite “Teen Angst” readers. This includes the poem with the line “you make love to my corpse.” The back-story to the poem is also pretty awesome.

The next Teen Angst show is July 8 at the Railway Club (7:30 - 9pm, as always). Our theme is hot summer nights/ teen sexy stories. Nathaniel has promised to bring out his ‘erotic’ teen angst poetry. I can’t wait!!!!

If you want to read some diaries/ poems/ songs/ letter etc e-mail teenangstpoet(at)gmail.com. Teen Angst love or/ more than like/ 'first time' stories are strongly encouraged!

May Teen Angst Show Photos

Photo Credit: Miles De Courcy

MEDIA WHORING

Teens going from bad to verse
Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008

TEEN ANGST POETRY NIGHT

(May 24, 10 p.m., Intrepid Theatre Club, 1609 Blanshard St.)

Eight years ago, Vancouver's Sara Bynoe unearthed her old boyfriend's teenage love poems. These maudlin masterpieces were hilarious. So she phoned a girlfriend to enjoy a mutual guffaw.

That nasty yukfest was the seed for Teen Angst Poetry Night. For this performance, 27-year-old Bynoe reads her self-penned teen poems, then invites audience members to read their own horrific teen musings (e-mail her at sarabynoe@gmail.com to sign up).

Bynoe's interest in teen writing spun off into a successful website in which people worldwide post their poems. She wrote a 2005 book, Teen Angst: A Celebration of Really Bad Poetry, and hosts a monthly open-mike night at Vancouver's Railway Club for those who relish bad teen prose.

The floodgates of Bynoe's own pubescent scribbling opened in Grade 8, when her boyfriend James (a Mormon who'd "fake-drink" beers) dumped her after a month. This prompted a steady stream that resulted in 400 poems and a journal she kept from age 15 to 20.

One of her James-inspired poems goes: "You thought wrong/You thought I would cry/You thought I would die/But it was me that said goodbye."

For adults -- aside from the humour -- the appeal of such writings is a feeling of catharsis in realizing others suffered as teens, Bynoe says. Just as we did.

NEXT SHOW - JUNE 10

Teen Angst: A Celebration of Inadvertently Hilarious Adolescent Writing
NEXT SHOW - JUNE 10
At The Railway Club,
579 Dunsmuir Street,

Doors at 7pm show at 7:30- 9pm (sharp! We run on time because that's all the time we have at the venue)
$7 at the door.

This is a recurring monthly show on the second Tuesday of every month (June 10, July 8 etc.). If you'd like to read e-mail teenangstpoet@gmail.com.

Note to readers, due to our limited time at the Railway club please keep readings under 10 min. You can read anything from poems to diary entries, to singing old songs, reading plays, letters, essays- ANYTHING! so long as it adheres to the following rules.

1- The work must be your own.

2- You must have written it between the ages of 10-19.

3- You must be over your old angst.

4- It is recommended that if you read it and 'cringe' it's worth sharing.

Check out www.youtube.com/sarabynoe for Sara's examples

Teen Angst is co-produced by Sarah Morgan Events and TeenAngstPoetry.com

Teen Angst: May 13

Teen Angst: May 13
The Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
7:30-9pm
$7 at the door
Free if you read: e-mail teenangstpoet(at)gmail.com

A Mask

A Mask

By: Karl


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